{"id":415293,"date":"2025-09-11T08:07:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T08:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/415293\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T08:07:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T08:07:36","slug":"democracy-in-the-uk-after-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/415293\/","title":{"rendered":"Democracy in the UK after Brexit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Background to the project<\/p>\n

The project has examined public attitudes relating to three dimensions of democracy:\u00a0<\/p>\n

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  1. Models of democracy<\/strong>: How do citizens in the UK now conceive the core values of democracy? For example, to what extent do they believe democracy should be representative or direct? Do they prefer it to be more majoritarian or more consensual?<\/li>\n
  2. The culture of democracy<\/strong>: How do people expect democracy to be practised, by politicians, political institutions, and their fellow citizens? What behavioural norms should any reform seek to promote?<\/li>\n
  3. Institutions of democracy<\/strong>: What do attitudes on models and cultures imply about citizens\u2019 preferred roles for the executive, legislature, judiciary, and general public in future UK democracy?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The project has also investigated\u00a0what factors influence variation in these attitudes. Are views on democracy related, for example, to people\u2019s age, their educational experiences, or where they live? Are they related to which party they support or their attitudes on issues such as Brexit? Do people have views about democracy as such, or are their attitudes towards democracy \u2018instrumental\u2019, being shaped by processes they think will deliver their preferred policy outcomes?<\/p>\n

    Finally, the project explores the relationship between, on the one hand, the \u2018baseline\u2019 attitudes that people have when they have not been asked specifically to think about these issues before and, on the other hand, the ‘deliberated’ attitudes they have after having a chance to learn more and think things through.\u00a0Do people\u2019s views change through such a process? And can \u2018deliberated\u2019 attitudes have an impact on wider public opinion?<\/p>\n

    In pursuit of these questions, the project’s three main elements are:<\/p>\n